How should the government allocate its tax revenues between productivity-enhancing and utility-enhancing public goods?

We present a fairly standard general equilibrium model of endogenous growth with productive and non-productive public goods and servives. The former enhance private productivity and the latter private utility. We solve for Ramsey second-best optimal policy (where policy is summarized by the paths of the income tax rate and the allocation of the collected tax revenues between productivity-enhancing and utilityenhancing public expenditures). We show that the properties and implications of second-best optimal policy (a) differ from the benchmark case of the social planner’s first-best allocation (b) depend crucially on whether public goods and services are subject to congestion.Second-best optimal policy; Congested public goods; Growth

Representativeness of the European Social Partner Organisations: Textiles and Clothing Sector

This study provides information designed to aid sectoral social dialogue in the textile and clothing sector. The study is divided into three parts: a summary of the sector’s economic background; an analysis of the social partner organisations in all the EU Member States, including their membership, role in collective bargaining, social dialogue and public policy, and national and European affiliations; and an analysis of relevant European organisations, particularly their membership composition and capacity to negotiate. The aim of EIRO studies on representativeness is to identify the relevant national and supranational social partner organisations in the field of industrial relations in selected sectors. The impetus for these studies comes from the European Commission’s desire to recognise the representative social partner organisations to be consulted under the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)

Pendekatan Service Oriented Architecture (Soa) Untuk Merespon Perubahan User Requirement Aplikasi E-government

Pendefinisian user requirement yang tidak komprehensif kadangkala menyebabkan pengembangan sistem informasi menjadi lama, over budget dan tidak dapat beradaptasi dengan Perubahan regulasi. Selain itu, adanya anggapan bahwa tidak adanya Perubahan regulasi dalam memberikan layanan kepada masyarakat. Hal ini disebabkan karena menganggap kondisi environment selalu berjalan normal. Pada Kenyataanya, pengembangan sistem informasi memerlukan perhatian khusus untuk antisipasi terhadap kondisi environment yang tidak dapat diprediksi Perubahannya. Penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam hal pengembangan sistem berbasis Service Oriented Analysis & Design dengan pendekatan SOA untuk mengakomodir Perubahan user requirement agar dapat dijadikan referensi untuk melakukan penelitian lanjutan

How Heartless Is The Church?

Published by the Lakehoma Church of ChristMustang, Oklahom

A BRIEF ASSESSMENT OF ROMANIA’S COMPETITIVE LEVEL

The central issue of this papaer is linked to competitiveness, in the context of integration in European Union. Big economic-social changes linket to: GLOBALISATION, FREE-TRADE, BUSINESS’ INTERNATIONALIZATION, TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION makes today cometitiveness problems to become the problem number one, of surviving, for all leaders and economic and political decission factors.competitiveness, fuzzy clustering, economic performance

From Storage and Retrieval of Pulses to Adiabatons

We investigate whether it is possible to store and retrieve the intense probe pulse from a $\Lambda$-type homogeneous medium of cold atoms. Through numerical simulations we show that it is possible to store and retrieve the probe pulse which are not necessarily weak. As the intensity of the probe pulse increases, the retrieved pulse remains a replica of the original pulse, however there is overall broadening and loss of the intensity. These effects can be understood in terms of the dependence of absorption on the intensity of the probe. We include the dynamics of the control field, which becomes especially important as the intensity of the probe pulse increases. We use the theory of adiabatons [Grobe {\it et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 73}, 3183 (1994)] to understand the storage and retrieval of light pulses at moderate powers.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures, typed in RevTe

Spartan Daily, October 4, 1968

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Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in the Netherlands 1999-2003

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within firms, and in which workers can be followed over time. In the period investigated the Netherlands experienced an increase in wage inequality. Despite the centralized system of wage negotiations in the Netherlands, our findings suggest that market forces were the main determinant of wage growth. Workers with similar wages experienced similar wage increases in firms of different sizes. Wages increases were larger for low-skilled workers in industries with large increases in demand than in other industries. Variation in wage growth was mainly at the individual level. Firm-level wage increases accounted for only 12 % of the total variation.